Currently, students, researchers as well as the wider interested public is all excited about the new findings in the field of Machine Intelligence in general and Neural Networks in particular. The expectations are flying high as new algorithms help to separate images from cats and dogs at a level of performance that exceeds humans’ capabilities. Moreover, Machine Intelligence also beat the best human players in games such as GO, Chess or Jeopardy. In spite of all these exciting developments we are facing a major societal challenge in terms of the Climate Crisis. One starts wondering if we can also employ Machine Intelligence/Artificial Intelligence for something more useful than playing games and sorting pictures. Most notably, we are wondering if MI can contribute to battle the Climate Crisis?
This is the question the students participating in the seminar tried to discuss in summer 2021. The students examine the state of the art use of machine learning methods in the context of oceans, solar energy, smart cities, the transportation sector, collective decision making, animals as well as forestry agriculture. Current trends are analyzed and projected into the future, which targets the question whether Machine Intelligence will help us saving our planet.
Link to mediaTUM:
https://mediatum.ub.tum.de/edit/edit_content?srcnodeid=1640065&id=1647354&tab=view